Feest Isolation Days –21 June
The alert level is DOWN! We have moved from level four to level three! Hurrah! So just what does that mean? Covid is still here. It’s circulating in the community but not to the degree it was back in March and April and May.
The Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC) is an organisation that uses various tests to identify changes in infection rates around the country and feeds in environmental and workplace data to their statisticians before advising the Chief Medical Officers who in turn advise the Ministers. Where is SAGE in all of this?
Tom Hurd (Douglas Hurds son) and a pal of Boris’s – they were at Eton and Oxford together – set up the JBC. Tom is a specialist in anti terrorism. The JBC is now run by Dr. Claire Gardener, and according to the Financial Times, Dr. Gardener is a “Senior Spy”.
Dr. Gardener has a research background in medical statistics and epidemiology at least, but since when was Covid 19 something that spies needed to get involved with? The virus isn’t going to change how it functions or come up with neat ways of bypassing computers! Clair was working as the Head of Cyber Resilience and Strategy at the National Cyber Security Centre — a branch of signals intelligence agency – GCHQ.
I guess she is a spy! All I wanted to do was find out what Level Three meant and low and behold, it would seem that I have stumbled across something quite unexpected. A bit of a mismatch between stopping a virus and stopping terrorists don’t you think?
Hopefully Professor Whitty will be at a briefing soon and can tell us what he thinks. He is a trustworthy and sensible man. Thank heaven he’s the CMO.
So I ask again, what now as we are at Level Three? Much the same for this household as Level Four. We don’t plan to go into shops or anywhere else until we are at Level Two.
Zoom dinner parties to continue then! I wonder if anyone will be listening to us as we chat away and mention the word spy…I doubt it!
Let’s hope that while all this intrigue carries on, most people continue to socially distance and wash their hands…
With love
Kathy x